A cottage garden favourite, Calendula, also know as the English or pot marigold is a hardy annual that will flower from late spring and all summer long. 'Fiesta' explodes into colour with double flowers in hot oranges and yellows from May until the first autumn frosts. They look spectacular planted en masse in beds, borders and planters and they make great cut flowers. Calendulas like a sunny location and fertile soil, and once established they will cope very well with wet or dry weather, giving you dazzling colour, month after month, and pollinators and other insects find them extremely attractive too. Sometimes referred to as 'poor man's saffron', the petals are edible and make a colourful salad garnish with a peppery taste, and they can be used to colour and flavour rice too. Fully deserving its coveted RHS Award of Garden Merit, you can be sure that this is a proven garden performer, guaranteed to be suitable for UK gardeners at every level of experience. You can therefore plant this in the garden with confidence, for a stunning summer display. Supplied as 20 garden ready plants, ready to plant in your garden and growing to a height and spread of 25 cm (10 in).
The showy, double blooms of Petunia 'Tumbelina Mix' make a wonderful display - and we've done the hard work for you with these pre-planted hanging baskets. Durable 27cm hanging baskets are filled with healthy 'garden-ready' plug plants, just hang them up outside your home or around your garden, water as necessary and watch them bloom. Delivery is in late May, when risk of frost is usually gone! Supplied as large garden-ready plug plants in a 27cm hanging basket.
This fabulous mix of classic summer flowering geraniums will burst into colour in late spring, in a torrent of dazzling reds, pinks and white. they will light up your beds, borders and hanging baskets. Their neat, uniform habit means that the plants always look their best with their showy flowers and striking light and dark zoned foliage putting on a wonderful, cheerful show until the first frosts of autumn. Supplied as 40 Pro Plug plants, ready to grow on before planting out.
A must-have in your summer planting, these neat little Begonias have vibrant flowers in red, pink and white with yellow centres above glossy leaves in a bold mix of deep bronze and bright green. Robust and reliable, they are particularly good at withstanding the wet or dry conditions of a British summer, and however you use them, the colours compliment each other and look spectacular mixed together. Perfect for patio pots, containers and hanging baskets in sun or partial shade, these brilliant Begonias will explode with a mass of colourful blooms all summer long! They're also fantastic in large bedding schemes, creating a carpet of wonderful colour in you flower beds. So easy to take care of, needing only regular watering, feeding and deadheading, they'll keep on flowering right up to the first frosts of autumn. Supplied as 40 Pro Plug Plants, ready to grow on and plant out after the risk of frost has passed, growing to a height of 20cm (8in) and spread of 15cm (6in).
While you may have a perception of dahlias as being old-fashioned, and something that your grandad grew when you were younger, they have actually been enjoying a renaissance over the last few years, mainly because they provide such stunning colour and value for money in the late summer and autumn. So easy to grow, Dahlias are supplied as tubers, packed full of energy to burst into growth in spring. Plant in pots or in the garden and they will get away quickly from May, producing a mass of bright colours which will fill your garden as summer turns to autumn. Our collection of cactus dahlias will give you large, double blooms with narrow, spiky petals and each pack provides 5 mixed colour tubers, which will reach around a metre tall, and produce plenty of flowers each. These can be cut for the house, or left to enjoy outdoors. Dead-heading will prolong flowering well into autumn. Plants will survive milder winters, but we recommend lifting the tubers and storing somewhere dry and frost-free over winter, or left in pots if that's how you choose to grow them. These blousy Dahlias make a great addition to any autumn garden and their blooms will bring colour as everything else starts to fade.
The sheer brightness of colours in this French Marigold series opens up a whole range of colour theming opportunities in pots and borders. 'Bonanza' is a series of large anemone-flowered Marigolds, each flower to 5cm across, and is renowned for its easy natural branching habit, filling up space well. Plant about 20cm apart for a carpet of colour. Hot oranges, reds, and deep golden yellows and many with a mix of several shades in between - you can get hot, hot, hot with your plantings this year. They thrive in full, hot sun, but tolerate our rainy periods too. Supplied as 40 Pro Plug Plants, ready to grow on before planting out.
Lupin are a firm favourite for lovers of the traditional cottage garden display. Lupin 'Russell Hybrids Mixed' comes in a wonderful mix of rainbow colours, which complement each other to form a perfect border or woodland display. In May, June and July, the plants' upright stems produce tightly packed blooms in many shades of red, white, pink, purple, yellow. Lupin 'Russell Hybrids Mixed' is a particularly great choice if there's a space at the back of a sunny border you need to fill, for the flowers are sure to flourish here. Height: 90cm (3'). Spread: 75cm (2'6).
A new twist on the ever popular Non-Stop Tuberous Begonia range, the Mocca series has the same big, ruffled colourful flowers on Non-Stops, but now set off against the most sumptuous velvety brown to purple leaves, seemingly making the colours even bolder and brighter against their dark and moody background, standing out like jewels. Look out for the orange and pink in particular. Great in borders en masse, or in large tubs, in sun or shade, they will form little corms that can be lifted in Winter and stored dry and replanted the following Spring (although we would much rather you wanted even more from us next season after their fabulous displays this year!). Supplied as 12 plug plants, ready to grow on before planting out.
The best bedding zinnia with fully double flowers in an array of bright colours. Enjoy superb free-flowering performance from these heat-tolerant and sun-loving plants. Perfect for bedding or containers and makes a great cut flower too!
The perfect partner for Begonia Illumination, Begonia Non-Stop is so named because of its prolific flowering characteristics it literally smothers itself in vibrant, brightly coloured double flowers permanently from late April until the first frosts in the autumn. It is really easy to grow in beds and borders as well as patio containers and has such a good reputation with professional growers it is an almost permanent feature in park displays. This is especially so because the faded flowers drop off without the need for dead-heading making way for fresh flowers without any work required! In your garden the large, slightly upward facing flowers which reach 10-15cm across, will be held on strong stems. They are really weather resistant and will thrive in any conditions from the hottest summer days to typically showery summer weather. The colour range is stunning with all shades of red, orange, pink, yellow and white included.Perfect for hanging baskets and tubs where the plants can trail. Supplied as 40 Pro Plug plants, ready to grow on before planting out.
These lovely snapdragons produce compact spires of large, pastel coloured, double flowers all summer which are long lasting and loved by bees. Simply stunning planted at the front of borders or in containers, 'Twinny'' is the perfect, long-lasting garden plant and exceptionally weather resistant. Snapdragons also make superb cut flowers and are long lasting in vases. Easy to grow, kids love the flowers and growing them is a great way to introduce children to the world of gardening and all the benefits that it can provide. Supplied as 40 Pro Plug Plants, ready to grow on before planting out.